Bamileke peoples accounted for about 24% of the country's population. The Kingdom of Bamum covers approximately 7,300 km.: 70 The Kingdom of Bamum was surrounded...
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Americas. The Bamum people and other ethnic groups have also asserted their link to the Tikar people through Tikar rulers in the Kingdom of Bamum. However...
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correctly. The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon)...
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warriors. By the end of the century, Bamum had perhaps 10,000-12,000 within its domain. The history and customs of the Bamum list ten kings between the founder...
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Bamum, also spelled Bamoum, Bamun, or Bamoun, may refer to: The Bamum people The Bamum kingdom The Bamum language The Bamum script Bamum (Unicode block)...
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List of the rulers of the Bamum people, an ethnic group located in Cameroon. Their capital Fumban is also spelled Foumban in some sources. (Dates in italics...
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Bamum (Shü Pamom [ʃŷpǎˑmə̀m] 'language of the Bamum', or Shümom 'Mum language'), also known as Shupamem, Bamun, or Bamoun, is an Eastern Grassfields language...
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Ibrahim Njoya (redirect from Njoya of Bamum)
that ruled over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon dating back to the fourteenth century, and Neographer having invented the Bamum syllabary. He succeeded...
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West Region (Cameroon) (section People)
yet it has the highest population density. As home to the enterprising Bamum and Bamileke kingdoms, the West is an economic bright spot and one of Cameroon's...
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Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya (category People from West Region (Cameroon))
and ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and Egypt. He was the king of the Bamum people from 1992 until his disappearance in 2021. Mbombo Njoya died due to complications...
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